“I think it was Acid Rain and the Ozone layer.”
That sounds right.
It seems that half of my life we have been careening from one catastrophe to another yet here we are.
Below is an excerpt from a link to an old FR thread about the Communist FDR and the New Deal - a booklet written in 1939. I think it was later on that Alinsky wrote about never letting a crisis go to waste. Even if you have to make one up.
“Having passed this crisis, the New Deal went on from one problem to another, taking them in the proper order, according to revolutionary technic; and if the handling of one was inconsistent with the handling of another, even to the point of nullity, that was blunder in reverse.
The effect was to keep people excited about one thing at a time, and divided, while steadily through all the uproar of outrage and confusion a certain end, held constantly in view, was pursued by main intention.
The end held constantly in view was power.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts